Bave de crapaud
There are many views on how to write with Feinheit, struggling to find the mot juste, add a little chutzpah, a little je ne sais quoi to your own personal form of expression.
Some apply great rigueur to their craft – 'a dies sine linea – while others take a slightly more Neroesque, so as not to say Delillo, stance – Qualis artifex pereo – although, a la fine, is it any worse than the artifice of the doctus cum libre crowd?
Difficult to know how to proceed, what with the Zeitgeist continually shifting, n’est-ce-pas?
Regardless of the aura popularis, however, I do believe it essential to stick to a fundamental piece of advice from Strunk and White:
Avoid foreign languages… It is a bad habit. Write in English.
Ite, missa est.
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